Plant of the Week
White Mulberry
Latin: Morus alba
As a child I never realized the mulberry fights my brothers and I participated in were made possible by one of the many get-rich-quick schemes that have plagued farmers for centuries.
( Stribling White Mulberry )
Morus alba is a round topped, densely branched tree which can reach 30 to 50 feet in height. The highly interwoven twiggy branches can give it an untidy appearance. It is fast growing, often seen in abandoned areas.
WHITE MULBERRY - Morus alba
WHITE SAPOTE
A Partial Rating of Some White Sapotes. By Jim Neitzel. 1981 #1, pp 20-21
Culture of Rare Fruits in the San Francisco Bay Area. By J. Garrin Fullington. 1974 #4, pp 3-6
Editor's Mailbag. By Clytia M.
white mulberry Moraceae Morus alba L. symbol: MOAL
Leaf: Alternate, simple, roughly orbicular in shape, 3 to 6 inches long with a serrate margin, often irregularly lobed, smooth above.
White mulberry trees are fast growers that often assume an irregular shape with multiple stems and a tangle of branches.
The white mulberry (Morus alba) is also grown for its fruits but is considered to have fruit of inferior quality to the black mulberry (M. nigra).
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The WHITE MULBERRY (M. alba), a deciduous tree, 30 to 45 feet high, native of China, to which we have referred as the tree upon which the silkworm is fed, succeeds quite well in the south of England but is not often grown in this country.
Weeping white mulberry (Morus alba 'Pendula') Zone 3
Japanese flowering cherry (Prunus 'Kiku-shidare-zakura' syn. 'Cheal's Weeping') Zone 6
Golden weeping willow (Salix alba 'Tristis') Zone 4 ...
Weeping White Mulberry (Morus alba 'Pendula')
Weeping Higan Cherry (Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula')
Weeping Willow (Salix alba 'Tristis')
Narrow, upright trees: ...
Morus alba. White mulberry. China
M. nigra. Black mulberry. W. Asia
M. rubra. Red mulberry. Eastern N. America
MORACEAE (Mulberry family) ...
Field Marks: Red mulberry differs from white mulberry by having the lower surface of the leaves hairy between the veins.
Habitat: Upland woods, lowland woods, bottomlands, old fields, roadsides, fencerows.
The white mulberry (M. alba) has been cultivated in China since very early times. In the Middle Ages it began to replace the black mulberry (M. nigra), which had been grown by the Greeks and Romans and, from the 9th cent.
Description:
Young trees of Weeping White Mulberry, often grafted onto a standard, will develop a very dense weeping canopy of thick stems and lustrous foliage with age, especially when placed in sunny sites.
Morus alba - White Mulberry
Morus australis - Chinese Mulberry
Morus celtidifolia - Mexican Mulberry
Morus insignis - Argentine Mulberry
Morus mesozygia - African Mulberry
Morus microphylla - Texas Mulberry
Morus nigra - Black Mulberry ...
Morus alba 'Fruitless'
White mulberry
Moraceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.
A very much more cultivated species in Europe and other countries is the White Mulberry (M. alba) and its varieties, but as England is too cold for silk cultivation it is of slight value with us, and the same may be said of the other kinds, ...
Grown also from heel cuttings taken in spring or fall, or may be layered in summer. Self-fertile. Morus alba, the white mulberry, is the hardier species, zone 5-9; Morus nigra, black mulberry, grows in zone 7-10 ...
Maclura pomifera (Osage Orange)
Morus alba (White Mulberry)
Morus australis (Contorted Mulberry)
Morus microphylla (Texas Mulberry, Little-leaf Mulberry)
Morus nigra (Black Mulberry)
Morus rubra (Red Mulberry) ...
white mulberry Morus alba
white passionflower Passiflora subpeltata
white pine Pinus strobus
white poplar Populus alba
white sweet clover; yellow sweet clover Melilotus officinalis
white willow Salix alba
whitehead spikesedge Kyllinga nemoralis ...
 See also: Mulberry, Morus, Green, Morus Alba, May
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